Ever Get a Game Before the System to Play It?

[bust3dstr8]

I was buying GBC and GBA for about 6 months before I landed a Cube w/ Gameboy Player.

[Technosis]

I picked up some bargain basement priced Dreamcast games long before the console

[8Ways2Tuesday]

I think I got my first X360 game about a month before the system, since I knew when I got the system I wouldn't be able to afford a game with it. ;

Got myself a couple wonderswan games in December because I knew I was getting one for Xmas. Same with my GBA a few years before. There's nothing worse than getting a system as a gift and having nothing to play for it (and all the stores are closed).

Right now I have a handful of Game Gear games and a non-functioning GG.

[S-Wind]

All the time!

It is inevitable that I will get what ever system comes out, so it is a no-brainer that when I see games for a system (regardless of whether or not I currently own that system) on sale or on clearance, I buy them.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

card fighters clash for ngpc.

[Dingo]

I've yet to buy a game before I have the system, but I have a feeling that I'm going to do that with Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles for PSP.

[chrissylas]

About 5 years ago some guy tried to trade in Panzer Dragoon Zweii at Gamestop (we'd long stopped taking in Saturn games) so I offered the guy $5 for it and he sold it to me. I probably didn't pick up a Saturn system until 2 years after that. It remained my only game for the system until about 6 months ago. I never seem to be able to find good looking Saturn games for sale.

[OatBob]

I've bought a bunch of NES games before the system. Actually, if you call the top-loader second rate, you could say that I still don't have a proper system.

[Rugal]

Yes i have, i did it with the SNES, N64 and the Sega CD. I have 2 SFC games but no SFC.

[Xizer]

Well, I've got six Atari 2600 games sitting on the shelf. I've had 'em for about a year now but I haven't gotten around to picking up a 2600 yet.

[hbkprm]

does pc count

[bangtango]

does pc count

Sure, I don't see why not. So what is the game or what are the games?

[dylan0228]

I`ve bought games before the systems were even released.

[Sparkster]

Yeah, I picked up Mega Man Anniversary for the PS2. I wasn't going to, but the dude was selling it for $2.

[Bassgrabber]

I have some GC games in anticipation of getting a GC or Wii. I also picked up a few PSP and PS2 games before I got those systems. No regrets :-)

[Barbarianoutkast85]

When I first started collecting retro games, I bought a box of 13 Atari Jaguar games. That box sat in my closet for a year and a half before I found a Jaguar in the wild.

[Fuzzball24]

If you count buying Xbox games before having an original Xbox, but being able to play them on a 360, yes!

Damn, you guys are now gonna make me do this. I'm a impulse buyer.

[77punk]

i still have a copy of blue thunder (given to me for free) for atari jaguar cd that i will probably very likely never play. Im sure im missing out in those festivities..

[grolt]

I bought VIRTUA FIGHTER in a Wal-Mart bin in 1997 or so for $0.99. I bought it more for my love for the series than anything else, but did plan on eventually getting a system. Here I am now, ten years later, just finally getting my first 32X.

To a lesser degree, I bought a lot of Sega CD games a couple months ago, and only now bit the bullet and bought a boxed unit. Still, I really don't have much interest playing them, but those blue cases sure look pretty.

[mezrabad]

I have no XBOX 360 yet I'm feeling very compelled to get a copy of Bioshock. I also seem to be jonesin' for Oblivion GotY edition.

It just ain't right.